There are about 2,000 kinds of edible mushrooms (including medicinal mushrooms) known in the world. At present, there are more than 200 kinds of edible mushrooms that have been cultivated artificially or experimentally, including shiitake, slippery mushroom, yellow umbrella, flat mushroom, red flat mushroom, elm mushroom, enoki mushroom, shimeji mushroom, shiitake mushroom, abalone mushroom, metamorphic mushroom, crested mushroom, apricot abalone mushroom, white lingzhi mushroom, black fungus, woolly fungus, golden fungus, silver fungus, elm fungus, acacia fungus, chrysalis cordyceps, poria mushroom, Poria mushroom, bamboo fungus, monkey-head mushroom, ganoderma lucidum, cloud mushroom, honey ring mushroom (hazelnut mushroom), pseudo-honey ring mushroom, golden needle mushroom, Brazilian mushroom, real shimeji mushroom, and other edible fungi. The following mushrooms are also being cultivated in semi-artificial cultivation: the honey-ring mushroom (hazelnut mushroom), the false honey-ring mushroom, the golden needle mushroom, the Brazilian mushroom, the true shimeji mushroom, the king oyster mushroom, the gray tree flower, the poplar mushroom, the chaffer mushroom, the golden mushroom, the hairy ghostly umbrella, the double-spored mushroom, the four-spored mushroom, the big fat mushroom, the straw mushroom, the silky straw mushroom, the big king oyster mushroom, the meadow mushroom, the long root mushroom, the tiger's milk mushroom, the cow's tongue mushroom, the mulberry yellow, the cracked pleurotomycetes, the sulfur mushrooms, the embroidered mushrooms, and the bamboo huang, and so on. There are also rare edible mushrooms such as matsutake mushroom (matsutake), morel mushrooms, Cordyceps sinensis, delicious porcini mushrooms, truffles, riveted mushrooms and other rare edible mushrooms that are undergoing experimental research on semi-artificial cultivation.

Edible fungi ingest nutrients in a way divided into the main putrefactive, *** raw, parasitic and partially parasitic four categories, the current artificial cultivation of several types of edible fungi can be cultivated most of the putrefactive, known as putrefactive bacteria. They need nutrition from the dead or decaying organisms and their products, putrefactive bacteria and wood-rotting bacteria and grass-rotting bacteria two categories. Edible fungi growing on dead trees, dead branches and other wood are called wood-rotting fungi, such as flat mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, slippery mushrooms, fungus, monkey heads, etc. Edible fungi growing on fodder, manure and other feces and grasses are called grass-rotting fungi, such as straw mushrooms and Agaricus bisporus mushrooms. Wood-rotting fungi, artificial cultivation should be wood chips or sections of wood as the main raw material; grass-rotting fungi to feces grass-based. The two in the decomposition and utilization of cellulose, lignin, there are differences, for edible fungi to choose the cultivation of raw materials and nutrient types from the varieties of matching laid the foundation.